Edmund Spenser
Edmund Spenser (/ˈspɛnsə/; c. 1552 – 13 January 1599) was an poet from England. He was most known for his poem The Faerie Queene, which talks about different knights who fight against evil. The poem also praises Queen Elizabeth I of England. He wrote also many sonnets and poems. The sonnets were collected under the name of Amoretti.[2]
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| Born | c. 1553 London, England |
| Died | 13 January 1599[1] London, England |
| Resting place | Westminster Abbey |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Language | English |
| Alma mater | Pembroke College, Cambridge |
| Period | 1569–1599 |
| Notable works | The Faerie Queene |
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Edmund Spenser made a new rhyme-scheme for sonnet (abab bcbc cdcd ee) and a nine-line stanza (ababbcbcc).[3] These forms are now called Spenserian sonnet and Spenserian stanza. Spenserian stanza was later used by many poets, among others by George Gordon Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats and Alfred Tennyson.
Edmund Spenser Media
Title page, Fowre Hymnes, by Edmund Spenser, published by William Ponsonby, London, 1596
Title Page of a 1617 Edition of The Shepheardes Calender printed by Matthew Lownes, often bound with the complete works printed in 1611 or 1617.
The epic poem The Faerie Queene frontispiece, printed by William Ponsonby in 1590.
